Stephennie Mulder, Art History associate professor, challenged recent articles about Viking clothing research by turning to Twitter. The Atlantic looks into the ramifications of the debate and the significance of this ancient clothing on current events in America.

In the current Visual Arts Center exhibition, “Room before,” graduate studio art students from the Department of Art and Art History teamed up with their peers at six other universities. The Daily Texan explores the work, which is on view through Dec. 9.

Thursday, October 26, 2017 | School of Design and Creative Technologies

IBM and UT have formed a classroom collaboration to teach design thinking to University of Texas undergraduates. IBM and UT’s first project is a course called “Radical Collaboration,” hosted by IBM and offered by the UT Center for Integrated Design within the newly launched School of Design and Creative Technologies. “Radical Collaboration” is a three-hour course offered to 24 University of Texas undergraduates from colleges across campus. Students are led through a rigorous semester-long design thinking training program taught by IBM designers at the IBM Design Studios in North Austin.

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies Andrew Dell’Antonio is co-editor on a project with University of Michigan Press that is calling for submissions regarding music and social justice. The new series, Music and Social Justice, reaches across academic and trade presses to welcome projects that shine new light on familiar subjects such as protest songs, humanitarian artists, war and peace, community formation, cultural diplomacy, globalization and political resistance.

The College of Fine Arts announced that it has appointed Jan Ryan to the newly created position of Director of Creative Entrepreneurship and Innovation. A successful entrepreneur and passionate advocate for professional women in Texas, Ryan has joined UT to create a new entrepreneurship program for students in the college. Ryan will work closely with Dean Doug Dempster of the College of Fine Arts, Doreen Lorenzo, assistant dean of the School of Design and Creative Technologies and the Fine Arts Career Services office to develop new courses and co-curricular programs that prepare students for 21st century creative careers.

Thursday, October 12, 2017 | School of Design and Creative Technologies

Jan Ryan recently joined the College of Fine Arts in the newly created role of Director of Creative Entrepreneurship and Innovation. In this Q&A, learn more about her new role and her vision for integrating entrepreneurship into the college and educating the next generation of creative leaders.

Currently on view at the Visual Art Center, Fool's Romance/Books From Aeromoto blends binaries and welcomes visitors into the contrasting but inviting space, wrote a reviewer with the Austin Chronicle.